I wasn't directing that post towards you, or anyone else who has contributed to this thread... I guess I should explain MYSELF
Here lately, I've gotten about 100 pm's of various nature. I try to reply to them all, except the absolutely absurd ones. For example: Many asking about a ringtone file in one of the ringtone threads... The link on page 1 might have died, but the link has been replaced on page 9 or something like that... but they never got past page 1... and decided to pm me, and usually they have NO posts on the forum and just joined in order to send ME the pm. So I endup searching through the thread and giving them the direct link to the file in question, when if they would have read the thread - they could have found it themselves.
If you (or anyone) search for posts by me, and most of the higher post count members, we ALL post content to share, links to files, information and great sites... I have NO PROBLEM SHARING WHATSOEVER - Thats why I'm still an active member of this forum - TO SHARE.. I got like 15 or more PMs of where to get SUPER video encoder..... now it was my bad because I accidently called it SMART VIDEO CONVERTER in post 1.... So I posted the link to the download site - but I mean, its soooo easy to find certain stuff with google, and this case was one of them. I get TONS of people pm'ing me about firmware from the BB5 firmware update thread: I havnt even read that thread since page 30 or something like that... but I still try and reply to them with either a link or advice - I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything...
It drives me crazy to read a thread where post 3 will a link to a file, and post 9 will be someone ASKING for that link
Bottom line, there's a difference in a user who wants to participate in the project at hand, and a user who wants to be completely spoon fed the answers/solutions.
I'll repeat myself: I didn't direct any of this towards anyone specifically... I'm just venting a little having 23 pm's since YESTERDAY - almost all of which required ME to search for THEM.